[3] After Giuliano's death, Semiramide married his cousin, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, in 1482.

[5] The Pazzi conspirators attempted to lure Giuliano and Lorenzo away from Florence to kill them outside the boundaries of the city – first on the road to Piombino, then in Rome,[6] and finally at a banquet hosted by the Medici at their villa in Fiesole.

[7] During Mass, at the sounding of the Elevation, he received a fatal sword wound to the head and was stabbed 19 times.

[13] Angelo Poliziano wrote two works which include Giuliano de' Medici as a major character.

[16] Giuliano makes a brief appearance in the video game Assassin's Creed II (2009) where he is murdered by Francesco de' Pazzi and other conspirators of the Pazzi conspiracy who were seeking to take over Florence under the command of Rodrigo Borgia, the future Pope Alexander VI.

[17] Giuliano is portrayed by Tom Bateman in Starz's original series Da Vinci's Demons (2013–2015).